Country size comparison
compared to
Illinois is about 1.9 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km,
while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making
Illinois 54.12% the size of Western Sahara.
Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people
(12.2 million more people live in Illinois).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Illinois
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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